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An Iambic Pentameter You Can Dance To: Adding Music to the Bard

An Iambic Pentameter You Can Dance To: Adding Music to the Bard

Thoughts On Shakespeare, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanAugust 16, 20002000, August, music, Shakespeare, American musical comedy, musicals, Thoughts on Shakespeare

A Great Talent; A Modest Man: He Was Counted Among the Finest of the Century's Actors

A Great Talent; A Modest Man: He Was Counted Among the Finest of the Century's Actors

Thoughts On Shakespeare, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanAugust 8, 20002000, August, Alec Guinness, obituary, Stratford Festival, Richard III, All's Well That Ends Well, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Thoughts on Shakespeare

Much Ado About Oakville's Pastoral Production

Much Ado About Oakville's Pastoral Production

What Strange Dream Is This?

What Strange Dream Is This?

Shakespeare, Canadian Stage, Shakespeare in High Park, Riffs on Shakespeare, National PostRobert CushmanJuly 18, 20002000, July, The Taming of the Shrew, Canadian Stage, Shakespeare in High Park, Sarah Stanley, Yanna McIntosh, Jordan Pettle, Roy Lewis, Louis Negin

The Conscience of the Queen

The Conscience of the Queen

Down, Down He Comes, Glistening

Down, Down He Comes, Glistening

Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, National PostRobert CushmanJuly 1, 20001999, July, Richard II, Stratford Festival, Martha Henry, Geordie Johnson, John Dolan, Robert King, Maggie Blake, Richard McMillan

Bloody Good Shakespeare

Bloody Good Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, National PostRobert CushmanJune 29, 20002000, June, Titus Andronicus, Stratford Festival, Richard Rose, James Blendick, Xuan Fraser, Diane D'Aquila, Scott Wentworth, Peter Hutt, Evan Buliung, Marion Day

A William Shakespeare/Cole Porter/George Gershwin Co-Production

A William Shakespeare/Cole Porter/George Gershwin Co-Production

Time Is Suspended in This Bizarre Place

Time Is Suspended in This Bizarre Place

Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, National PostRobert CushmanJune 1, 20002000, June, As You Like It, Stratford Festival, Jeannette Lambermont, Lucy Peacock, Donald Carrier, Brian Tree, Jacklyn Francis, Juan Chioran, Robert Benson, Jonathan Goad, Joseph Shaw, Steve Ross, Keith Thomas

Neither a Rogue nor Peasant Slave Is He

Neither a Rogue nor Peasant Slave Is He

Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, National PostRobert CushmanMay 31, 20002000, May, Hamlet, Stratford Festival, Joseph Ziegler, Paul Gross, Marion Day, Domini Blythe, Benedict Campbell, Juan Chioran, Graham Abbey, Jerry Franken, Christina Poddubiuk

With Him Dies an Era of Theatrical Giants

With Him Dies an Era of Theatrical Giants

Thoughts On Shakespeare, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanMay 29, 20002000, May, Thoughts on Shakespeare, John Gielgud

Peeking at the Narrator's Diary

Peeking at the Narrator's Diary

Riffs on Shakespeare, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanApril 24, 20002000, April, Shakespearean Gala, Winter Garden, Ian McKellen, John Neville, Claire Bloom, Christopher Plummer, Measha Brueggergosman, Angela Winkler, Colm Feore, Simon Russell Beale, Helen Schlesinger, Riffs on Shakespeare

Tribute to Shakespeare: A Birthday Celebration

Tribute to Shakespeare: A Birthday Celebration

You Can Teach Young Dogs New Tricks

You Can Teach Young Dogs New Tricks

The Perfect Titus for Our Times

The Perfect Titus for Our Times

Shakespeare, Film, National PostRobert CushmanJanuary 24, 20002000, January, Titus Andronicus, Film, Julie Taymor, Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Colm Feore, Harry Lennix

This Is a Lear Who's Read Lear

This Is a Lear Who's Read Lear

Riffs on Shakespeare, Necessary Angel, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanJanuary 10, 20002000, January, Hysterica, King Lear, Richard Rose, Necessary Angel Theatre, Maria Vacratsis, Maggie Huculak, Duncan Ollerenshaw, Hamish McEwan, Teresa Przybylski, Riffs on Shakespeare

Parody a Comedy at Your Peril

Parody a Comedy at Your Peril

Riffs on Shakespeare, National Post, Shakespeare, ContemporaryRobert CushmanOctober 16, 19991999, October, MacHomer, Rick Miller, Macbeth

(Nearly) Authentic Shakespeare

(Nearly) Authentic Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Globe, National PostRobert CushmanSeptember 13, 1999Antony and Cleopatra, Globe Theatre, Giles Block, Mark Rylance, Paul Shelley

Sharp Shakespeare Among the Trees and Passing Cyclists

Sharp Shakespeare Among the Trees and Passing Cyclists

Thunder of Applause for Hutt and History

Thunder of Applause for Hutt and History